Eclipse, The Dog Who Rode The Bus (Cool Weird Awesome 926)
Today in 2015, the first news reports about Eclipse, a dog in Seattle that had figured out how to get itself to the dog park on the city bus.
In The 1980s, You Downloaded Video Games Off The Radio (Cool Weird Awesome 337)
Today we download video games online all the time. Back in the 1980s, gamers without the Internet (such as it was) had to buy or borrow their games. But a few could download programs off the radio. Plus: there's a comet headed Earth's way, and it might make for some great viewing this month, or 6,000 years from now. Either one.
Look, It’s The History Of Halley’s Comet (Cool Weird Awesome 120)
Do people still say “look, it’s Halley’s Comet” as a distraction, or is that over for the next 40 years or so?